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Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley reads the apology letter By Ivan Pak   On November 15, 2025, the City of Burnaby took a long-awaited step toward confronting its past. In a formal ceremony attended by community members, civic leaders, and families of early Chinese settlers, the mayor delivered an official apology for more than five decades

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By Tucson Spotlight on Nov 6, 2025 Dr. Howard John Eng’s new book documents the history and lasting impact of Chinese-owned markets that once shaped Tucson’s neighborhoods and community life. Dr. Howard John Eng’s bilingual book, “Pursuing the American Dream” documents Tucson’s Chinese-owned grocery stores and the families behind them. Courtesy of Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. When Dr. Howard

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By:Nick Evans–October 1, 20254:50 am  Demonstrators protesting a pair of Ohio measures that would restrict land ownership by noncitizens from countries designated as “foreign adversaries.” (Photo by Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal.) This past weekend more than a hundred Ohioans demonstrated outside the Statehouse against a pair of bills that could effectively outlaw some immigrants

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“Academia is like a fairy-tale land with its own rules, and half of the rules are nonsense.” At 29 years old, the Chinese-American author of the best-selling novel Yellowface is getting ready to publish her sixth book—and complete her fourth degree By Hannah Gross August 23, 2025 Just a year shy of 30, Rebecca F. Kuang, better known

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How Chinese Americans Helped Black Communities in the Jim Crow South September 18, 2025 by Jeffrey Kass Unless you’ve studied history closely, you may have been surprised to see a Chinese-owned grocery store in the Deep South serving Black customers during the Jim Crow era. One friend who saw the movie remarked afterward, “That was random.” But

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